Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk
Mounk in 2016
Born	Yascha Benjamin Mounk (1982-06-10) 10 June 1982 (age 42) Munich, West Germany
Nationality	German American
Occupations	Academic journalist
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany (c. 1990s – 2015)
Academic background
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge Harvard University
Thesis	The Age of Responsibility (2015)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Sandel[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Website	yaschamounk.com

Yascha Benjamin Mounk^[2] (born 10 June 1982) is a German-American political scientist and author. He is Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. In July 2020, he founded Persuasion, an online magazine devoted to defending the values of free societies.

As a freelance journalist, Mounk has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Slate, and German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, of which he had been co-editor since 2023.